Lobbyists Find New Congress is Open for Business Lobbyists who dreaded Democratic control find they’re being heard. by Tom Hamburger and Janet Hook Incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi terrified the oil industry late last year when she outlined her priorities for the new Democratic majorities in Congress. Within the first 100 hours, she promised, they …
Check this out: Bush has just signed into law a bill (HR 5122) that gives him the right to order military forces into any state that he deems necessary. You can read the pertinent section of the bill below, and I also suggest you check out Frank Morales’ story, “Bush Moves toward Martial Law” on …
I have been reading The Marx-Engels Reader and have just finished the first section which presents a number of Marx’s early writings. I am amazed at how relevant and important his work remains. Beyond the purely academic use of Marx in Academic circles– a use that is often filtered through Louis Althusser and other post-Marx …
This is part of the bill that passed the House Intelligence Committe and is expected to go for a full vote soon. Basically it allows the Executive and Legislative branches to do an end-run around the Judicial, and gives the President power place American citizens under surveillance with no legal evidence to back him up, …
Sunday and Monday, ABC is airing a “docudrama” about the events leading up to 9/11. The movie is far more “drama” than “docu,” yet is being presented as factual. For more information see the following links: “Top Bush Counterterrorism Official: ABC‚??s Path to 9/11 Is ‚??Shameful,‚?? ‚??Straight Out of Disney and Fantasyland‚??” “Richard Clarke Blasts …
If you haven’t heard, the FDA has agreed with a petition by Intralytix, Inc. to spray luncheon meats with a combination of six viruses in order to “eat” the Listeria monocytogenes bacterium which causes about 2,500 illnesses each year and several hundred deaths. From the AP Story on CNN: The combination of six viruses is …
Apologies for being so long away from my faithful readers–all 5 of you!–and for not posting any music this weekend, but the fallout from getting the article done on Friday was brain-deadness (how’s that for a neologism), but LtL is back, and rearing for the blog stuff, so here goes: The Mickey Mouse Police The …
Politics: With the use of terror as a political weapon growing to be the norm, both for terrorists and elected officials, Craig Murray, a former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan, offers a clear review different viewpoint of the alleged plot in Britain, pointing out facts that most other news outlets have neglected (such as the fact …
Materials: To play “Geneva Conventions: The Drinking Game” you need copies of the conventions as ratified by nearly every country in the world (including the US), your favorite alcoholic beverages (because you are sure-as-shit going to need some drinking), and a group of your friends. Preferably bi-partisan. The Peace Pledge Union provides a good and …
The current bill proposed by Sens. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) and Byron Dorgan (D-North Dakota), has failed in committee. Michael Grebb has a good story over at Wired about how the net has never really been all that neutral… certainly not in an attempt to dismiss ongoing efforts to prevent blatent segregation of information, but to …